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Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants
BACKGROUND: Recent evidence indicates that infant faces capture attention automatically, presumably to elicit caregiving behavior from adults and leading to greater probability of progeny survival. Elsewhere, evidence demonstrates that people show deficiencies in the processing of other-race relativ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20824137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012509 |
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author | Hodsoll, John Quinn, Kimberly A. Hodsoll, Sara |
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description | BACKGROUND: Recent evidence indicates that infant faces capture attention automatically, presumably to elicit caregiving behavior from adults and leading to greater probability of progeny survival. Elsewhere, evidence demonstrates that people show deficiencies in the processing of other-race relative to own-race faces. We ask whether this other-race effect impacts on attentional attraction to infant faces. Using a dot-probe task to reveal the spatial allocation of attention, we investigate whether other-race infants capture attention. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: South Asian and White participants (young adults aged 18–23 years) responded to a probe shape appearing in a location previously occupied by either an infant face or an adult face; across trials, the race (South Asian/White) of the faces was manipulated. Results indicated that participants were faster to respond to probes that appeared in the same location as infant faces than adult faces, but only on own-race trials. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Own-race infant faces attract attention, but other-race infant faces do not. Sensitivity to face-specific care-seeking cues in other-race kindenschema may be constrained by interracial contact and experience. |
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spelling | pubmed-29317012010-09-03 Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants Hodsoll, John Quinn, Kimberly A. Hodsoll, Sara PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Recent evidence indicates that infant faces capture attention automatically, presumably to elicit caregiving behavior from adults and leading to greater probability of progeny survival. Elsewhere, evidence demonstrates that people show deficiencies in the processing of other-race relative to own-race faces. We ask whether this other-race effect impacts on attentional attraction to infant faces. Using a dot-probe task to reveal the spatial allocation of attention, we investigate whether other-race infants capture attention. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: South Asian and White participants (young adults aged 18–23 years) responded to a probe shape appearing in a location previously occupied by either an infant face or an adult face; across trials, the race (South Asian/White) of the faces was manipulated. Results indicated that participants were faster to respond to probes that appeared in the same location as infant faces than adult faces, but only on own-race trials. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Own-race infant faces attract attention, but other-race infant faces do not. Sensitivity to face-specific care-seeking cues in other-race kindenschema may be constrained by interracial contact and experience. Public Library of Science 2010-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2931701/ /pubmed/20824137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012509 Text en Hodsoll et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hodsoll, John Quinn, Kimberly A. Hodsoll, Sara Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants |
title | Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants |
title_full | Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants |
title_fullStr | Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants |
title_full_unstemmed | Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants |
title_short | Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants |
title_sort | attentional prioritization of infant faces is limited to own-race infants |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20824137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012509 |
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